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Medicare and Medicaid Programs and the Children's Health Insurance Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2025 Rates; Quality Programs Requirements; and Other Policy Changes

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 28, 2024. It took effect on October 1, 2024.

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What the agency says

This final rule revises the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals; makes changes relating to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals; updates the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs); and makes other policy- related changes.

Key facts

Document number
2024-17021
Type
Final rule
Action
Final rule
Agency
Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Published
August 28, 2024
Takes effect
October 1, 2024
Dates
With the exception of instruction 2 (Sec. 405.1845), instruction 29 (Sec. 482.42(e)) and instruction 31 (Sec. 485.640(d)), this final rule is effective October 1, 2024. The regulation at Sec. 405.1845 is effective January 1, 2025. The regulations at Sec. Sec. 482.42(e) and 485.640(d) are effective on November 1, 2024.
Docket
CMS-1808-F
Regulation ID (RIN)
0938-AV34
Code of Federal Regulations
42 CFR 405; 42 CFR 412; 42 CFR 413; 42 CFR 431; 42 CFR 482; 42 CFR 485; 42 CFR 495; 42 CFR 512
Topics
Administrative practice and procedure; Diseases; Grant programs-health; Health care; Health facilities; Health insurance; Health maintenance organizations (HMO); Health professions; Health records; Hospitals; Intergovernmental relations; Medicaid; Medical devices; Medicare; Penalties; Privacy; Puerto Rico; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Rural areas; X-rays
Pages
1061

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